The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-24

pleased with the result of the biddinf
for the production in this country OF
armor and gun-steel.
I KANSAS CITY RESERVE CITY.
| WASHINGTON, March p kansas CITY
was to-day made reserve city under
the provision of the act passed at the
last session Of Congress.
THOMPSON'S SUCCESSOR.
1t is said that w. w. Stewart will be
appointed collector of internal revenue
for the Second District of Iowa, vice
w. s. Thompson, deceased.
POSTOFFICE INSPECTOR RESIGNED.
George A. Dyce, pOstoffice inspector
for the st. Louis, Missouri, division
has resigned.
BOND APPROVED.
Acting Secretary Fairchild and So
licitor w. E. Cue to-day approved the
/ bond of C. f. Schultz as Assistant
5000, 900.
INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED.
| Instructions were issued to the As
sistant TreasurerS at New York, Philar
delphia and Boston to receive deposits
| for 81 and 81 silver certificates to-day
/ and to resume the issue of those notes.
| CHIEF CLERK DEAD.
NJ. A. Latarie, chief clerk of the
headquarters of the army, died here
yesterday.
DROWNED AT SEA.
| Commander S. IL. Dawes, of the
United States training ship, Saratoga,
reports to the Navy Department, under
date of port of Spain, Trinidad, March
| 2, that while at San Fernando at an
chorage on the oath ult, an accident
occurred by the swamping of small
boat, by which Paymaster Clark, AL
bert Taylor, Cowie, j. Coates, apothe-
| ri
| lam Foster, coXswain, lost their lives.
THE ISSUE OF STANDARD DOLLARS.
The issue of standard dollars from
| the minis during the week ended March
10, was $406, 805; during the correspond
| ing period of last year, Sale, 40. The
| shipments of fractional silver coin since
| March amounts to 1892 OBS.
APPOINTED.
| The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has appointed the following store keep
ers and gaugers: Asby NJ. BelfOrd, at
Jeffersonyille, KY; Thomas Rodman,
| at Frankfort, KY; Michael Grotty, at
| Cincinnati, and Thomas NJ. Sharp, at
| Nicholas County, Ky.
NO PROPOSALS RECEIVED.
| Although tomorrow has beer fixed as
the day for opening the proposals for
furnishing 81 tons of gun steel and
| $500 tons of steel armour plates. re-
quired by the Naval Department for
the monitors and cruisers, no proposals
have yet been received at the Depart
ment. 1t is believed, however, that
there will be fair representation of
| the steel manufacturers of the country
present at the hour set for opening the
proposals, and that they will follow a
| practice that has grown up of with
holding bids until the last moment as a
measure of safety.
/ PRFSTDFNTIAT APPOINTMENTS
The President made the following
appointments this afternoon: George
+. Pritchell, United States District At
tOrney for Nebraska; Emory s. Sellers,
United States District Attorney for
Indiana; Thomas Hayden, United
States District Attorney for Nevada.
| APPLICATION REFUSED.
The Treasury Department has taken
adverse action on the application of
the officers of the Koho Wong glass
house of San Francisco, society es-
tabiished for alleged religious purposes,
for the free entry of a figure of a
dragon, representing the god or glass
IIo Wong. The figure is about $50
feet long and is composed of
paper, silk, metal, glass, feathers,
tinsel and goats hair. The application
is based on the provisions of law for
| the free entry of philosophical and
scientific apparatus, statuary, paint
| ings, drawings, ETC., and for regalia
and gems, statues and specimens of
sculpture where specially imported in
| good faith for the use of any society
incorporated or established for relig-
ious purposes" The Department held
that the image is not included in the
list of articles above mentioned, and
is therefore not entitled to free entry.
| THE ARMY.
Second Lieutenant William E. Almy,
Fifth Cavalry, is relieved from duty as
member of the general court martial
| at jefferson barracks, and transferred
from troop c to troop F, Fifth Cavalry
while First Lieutenant George A. linn.
Corps of Engineers. has been relieved
from temporary duty with Company
E, Battalion of Engineers, and ordered
to Galveston, Tex.
Leave of absence for four months has
been granted First Lieutenant Cornelius
Gardner, Nineteenth Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Baldwin ID. Spill
/ man, troop NJ, and Second Lieutenant
George II. Cameron, troop c, Fifth
Cavalry, have been allowed to exchange
commands.
Lieutenant General Sheridan has di
rected that the practice OF firing
morning and evening gun be diScon.
tinued until further orders, except al
the United States Military Academy
West Point, at Fort Monroe, Virginia
and at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, be
cause the supply of powder remaining
at the close of the war of the rebellion
which was used for this purpose, has
become exhausted, and the ordnance
department is without funds.
General Drum has not been on duty
at the war department for several days
owing to the illness of Mrs. Drum.
First Lieutenant George NJ. Love
retired, died at Buffalo, N. Y, yester-
day. He entered the army during thu
war, and gradually rose to a breve
brigadier general, having command a
different times of corps, brigades and
divisions. After the war he enteres
the regular army as second heutenan
and was made a first lieutenant in 1875
but never reached higher rank.
Since publicity has been given to
rumor that Colonel II. G. Gibson
, Third artillery, had been reprimande'
by the Secretary of War for the un
soldierly conduct and appearance of tn
, military escort belonging to the Thir'
J artillery on the occasion OF the funera
of Colonel r. n. Scott, Colonel Gibson
! has sent communications to a numbe
! of journals characteriZing the para
graph in question as utterly false.
! 1t is learned, nevertheless, that tn
: official letter was sent by the War DE
partment authorities to Colonel Gibson
the concluding portion of which woul'
be construed by almost all army officer
as an official reprimand. To-day, how
! ever, was published an official orde
+ from General Sheridan, which entirel
: exonerates Colonel Gibson from an
cause for censure.
INTERSTATE COMMISSIONERS.
The President has appointed the fol
: lowing Interstate Commerce Commits
f sioners: Thomas n. Casley, of Mich
: l.gan. for the term of six years; William
: r. Morrison, of Illinois, for the tern
/ of five years; August Shoemaker, o
> New York, for the term of four years
AIdace F. Walker, of Vermont, for tn
q term of three years; Walter l.. Bragg
n of Alabama, for the term of two year:
: Had Indian Captured.
c GLOBE, \. T.. March 23.-The India
Q who killed Lieut.. Mott and wounde
: Frank Potter has been captured.
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